Example Sentences

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They included flavors from an elaborately moulded and colored iced spinach à la crème, to little devilled ices in cups.

From Salon • Aug. 8, 2023

At La Mercerie, in SoHo, the dish looks more like oeufs mimosa, or devilled eggs, with the cavity of each egg half filled with mayonnaise and sprinkled with grated yolk.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 9, 2018

Not long ago, she won first prize in the annual church fair for her hot devilled crab cakes.

From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2015

Meanwhile, if The Neighbors, about a couple moving into a gated community populated by extraterrestrials, were a canapé, it would be a molecular-gastronomy mishap, and Malibu Country a slightly-off devilled egg.

From Slate • May 16, 2012

Tender freshwater shrimp garnished with cream and rose leaves, devilled barley pearls in acorn purée, apple and carrot chews, marinated cabbage stalks steeped in creamed white turnip with nutmeg.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques